[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 12.04->14.04 upgrade gone awry

[Christopher Wagner]

Hi Mitch, you might try renaming ~/.config also.

I'm running 12.04 LTS now, and dreading doing the 14.04 upgrade.  I just
did the Hardware Enablement Stack upgrade, which went fairly well,
except trashing the proprietary AMD drivers on my system.  Had to remove
and reinstall them and then all was well.

- Chris

On 08/29/2014 08:57 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> I don't know why I always forget how painful the upgrade process is,
> but I've managed to once again render my ubuntu machine almost
> unusable, and I'm hoping that somebody here can help.
>
> I'll spare you the details other than to say after much hacking about
> with apt-* and dpkg I've managed to make it boot, and can even get
> into a window manager by setting the defaults to kdm and kde.  The
> problem is that I don't like KDE, and would much rather use some gnome
> based desktop, but they all wedge on login.  I can't find anything
> useful in /var/log/Xorg.log or /var/log/syslog.  
>
> I've tried removing (well, moving to a different directory) ~/.gnome*
> and ~/.gtk*, but that didn't help.
>
> Any other ideas out there?
>
> Thanks,
>   - Mitch
>
>
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